whiteless

whiteless

English

Etymology

white +‎ -less

Adjective

whiteless (not comparable)

1. Lacking white; (of the eyes) lacking (visible) whites.
   • 1897, Emerson Hough, The Cowboy (originally published as The Story of the Cowboy), New York: The Brampton Society, 1908, Chapter 13, p. 262,^[]

     […] The whiteless blue of heaven

     Comes down to meet the greenless gray of earth—

     And compasses her dream.

   • 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part I, Chapter 7, Early Russian Painting,

     In those grave, whiteless eyes and sad small mouth live the eternal sorrows and joys and the whole destiny of man.

   • 1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune,

     The black beard which fanned out across the neck of his stillsuit hood like a wild delta contained flecks of grey, but his eyes carried that same whiteless intensity they’d presented to her on their first encounter in the desert.

Anagrams

• Whitesels